January 2009 – Page 4 – red paper boat

Delayed Nosypantsing

January 12, 2009November 5, 2015 Shelly

Coworker A asked me if it was supposed to snow tonight. I looked at Weather.com and gave her the newest forecast. Then, about an hour later, Coworker B informed me that her weather forecaster of choice said something entirely different. Why on earth should I care? I wasn’t the one who wanted to know whether or not it was going to snow, and the person who did want to know left over an hour ago. And besides which, who on earth waits an hour to poke their nose into someone else’s conversation?

WTF?

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Reading Material

January 10, 2009December 1, 2015 Shelly

My new favorite blog is Cake Wrecks. If you need a good laugh, check it out.

I’m also enjoying Eliza’s blog, mostly because she reminds me of people I know. It’s not always updated regularly (though she seems to be on a roll right now), but I keep her in my RSS feed.

And, another fake tilt shift image, made with TiltShiftMaker.

This isn’t from today, but it’s pretty much what it looks like out my window this morning (minus the spring greenery).

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African Violet

January 10, 2009November 15, 2015 Shelly

My boss’ boss has the cubicle next to mine. When she was out for the holiday break, she asked me to water her plants. I warned her that I have The Black Thumb of Dqqm, but she was not impressed. Apparently her African violet wasn’t impressed, either, because it DID NOT DIE! In fact, it started blooming it’s silly little head off.

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Saturday Dogblogging

January 10, 2009January 8, 2016 Shelly

Harriet was almost out of food, so I stopped to pick some up on my way home from work. This time, Wellness Core, which is what I wanted to get last time, as it is grain free, but they were out. It was in stock this time, and she likes it just as much as the Wellness Super 5 Mix.

There’s a shot of Pandora toward the end. She was supervising.

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Faux Tilt Shift

January 8, 2009March 25, 2015 Shelly

Via BoingBoing, an on-line tool to create fake tilt shift photos. Very cool! There is also a Flickr group for images altered with TiltShiftMaker.

You can buy fancy-pants (expensive!) tilt shift lenses. The same effect is also sometimes achieved randomly when you take photos from airplanes. The “model village” effect is cool, so folks have devised ways to achieve it using PhotoShop. TiltShiftMaker is free and easier than faking it by hand.

For Those Who Use LiveJournal

January 6, 2009January 16, 2016 Shelly

There is all kinds of talk about Lj going bye-bye, apparently based on this article. My journal isn’t very large, and if it were lost, it wouldn’t be a big deal. But, I know some of you out there who use Lj have large journals going back many years. There are various back-up tools. I tried LjArchive, and it worked really well. You can choose to download the uncompressed exe file or a zip file, and it’s apparently platform independent.

And that’s all I know.

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